NATO Summit 2025
Prof. Glenn Diesen on CGTN
I was on CGTN to discuss NATO Summit 2025: What does 5% defence spending target mean for each member?
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I was on CGTN to discuss NATO Summit 2025: What does 5% defence spending target mean for each member?
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This summit will go down in history. For being the most embarrassing case of boot licking ever witnessed on an international scale. Rutte the NATO general secretary, has many times already made himself look & sound like the pathetic globalist idiot he obviously is. But he has brought ridicule upon himself & the organisation. For over doing, what was clearly a planned worship of King Narcissist Trump. When a simple construction worker like myself can see the pathetic attempts to act like theyre in awe of the American mouthpiece. I'm pretty sure those with the slightest bit of intelligence could see through this act. What we've got to remember is, these people are playing with huge amounts of money. Our money, our taxes put in the hands of these compulsive lying corrupt officials. Why are we allowing these people to rule over us?
Here is one indication of what it will mean:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/26/c778-j26.html
"...The increase in military spending to 5 percent, which for many European countries means a tripling of their budgets, places fierce social attacks and class struggles on the agenda. They will decide whether the warmongers prevail or the working class gains the upper hand.
Germany, which has financial leeway thanks to a low debt ratio of 63 percent, is trying to leverage this somewhat through massive new borrowing. The government has presented a budget plan that aims to achieve the 5 percent target in just five years.
But other countries, that are already heavily indebted, do not have this option. The United Kingdom and Spain, with debt ratios of 100 percent, Belgium with 105 percent and France with 113 percent, have not yet presented any financing plans. They will have to cut social spending much more quickly and ruthlessly in order to achieve the NATO target.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez initially refused to agree to the 5 percent target, but relented after Trump berated him and Rutte then offered him a face-saving compromise...."